Posts tagged: sherrod brown

This would be a little like MoveOn.org going after Nancy Pelosi. The way the Tea Party-aligned FreedomWorks is going after the Republican Party’s congressional leaders begs the question of what happens if the party wins control of Congress. Already, House...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent $100,000 in campaign funds last month to the Democratic Senate campaign group leading the effort to defend the party’s majority in the November elections. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio matched Warren’s donation to the...

Sen. Sherrod Brown, co-sponsor of a bill to prevent any one financial institution from growing so large that it could jeopardize the economy or require another federal bailout, sees little likelihood of anything passing this year — not his plan,...

In Chicago, Eliot Ness is an Untouchable name. So, it’s Politics 101 for the two U.S. senators from Illinois to try to honor the man who brought down mob boss Al Capone. Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk today introduced...

Updated at 10:25, 11:11, 111:20 am and 1:45 pm EST Five votes. That’s what the Democrats in the Senate said they needed from Republicans this morning for a delayed vote on the extension of unemployment benefits for more than 1...

The Senate Finance Committee will begin its consideration of revisions to the tax code with a proposal that would eliminate all tax breaks and ask lawmakers to justify their restoration, say three congressional aides familiar with the proposal. The concept...

Many critics of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul will say that the bill’s biggest shortcoming is its failure to reduce the size of the largest banks — the ones that are “Too Big To Fail.” Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo,...

Sen. Sherrod Brown, center, takes his seat beside Sen. Jon Tester and Sen Robert Menendez, right, before the confirmation hearing of Richard Cordray, nominee for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Mary Jo White, nominee for chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on March 12, 2013 in Washington, DC.

Lawmakers and lobbyists in Washington are busy chewing over the possibility that one of the main advocates of breaking up the big banks could be in the running to take over the Senate Banking Committee in 2015. The current chairman...

An Ohio Democratic lawyer and political activist who led fundraising for Senator Sherrod Brown’s successful 2012 re-election campaign doesn’t rest on his laurels — he’s already a candidate himself for a House seat in 2014. Michael Wager, 61, will seek election...

There’s been a lot of talk about wrong polls this year, because there have been a lot of them. One that’s come out right again is The Ohio Poll. The University of Cincinnati’s Ohio Poll projected President Barack Obama’s re-election...